- Sorry for the term confusion. So this will put uboot at the CPU reset vector, which will make sure basic hardware is functional, then pass off to kexec to load the kernel of choice. Once that's done the kernel modules initialize the rest of the hardware. I'm intentionally not including where OS copies, etc are taking place. I presume once I learn enough about uboot and kexec things like this will be obvious.

- Having finally loaded a version of pdaXrom that's stable enough for my tastes (I knew they'd get that right eventually) I have to say it would be an excellent candidate for an operating system. I think it already uses uboot as well.

- The "spare" Linux boxen have taken a back seat since the move, so I don't have my development workstation set up yet. When I do I'm going to download Meanie's code for pdaXii13 Akita, since that's what I'm running on Hiro right now, and get that to build. I can play with uboot and kexec from there. Even if pdaXrom isn't using those tools, I should be able to vet the boot sequence to use them. It'll be a good learning experience.

it's ONLY weaknesses as far as I can see is a lack of RAM, if it had 256M RAM it'd be great and no SD card slot; it's also a bit big, and we could comfortably drop the IDE, PS/2, and PCMCIA slot to reduce its size. Hmm, it'd be nice if it had a sata port which could be brought externally for things!

it's ONLY weaknesses as far as I can see is a lack of RAM, if it had 256M RAM it'd be great and no SD card slot; it's also a bit big, and we could comfortably drop the IDE, PS/2, and PCMCIA slot to reduce its size. Hmm, it'd be nice if it had a sata port which could be brought externally for things!

glomation inc sells the same board for $100. But regardless of the price, I wouldn't use a cirrus cpu, since they suck. Every ep93xx cpu produced today fails to boot about 10% of the time...

glomation inc sells the same board for $100. But regardless of the price, I wouldn't use a cirrus cpu, since they suck. Every ep93xx cpu produced today fails to boot about 10% of the time...

top tip, thanks for that!

it seems to me that an N800 with big memory cards is still one of the most cost effective well featured arm development/test tools. it'd be nice if the schematics were published so it'd be more amenable to hardware hackery.

The one I liked best so far was the Adelaide thing ... price was nice too 140 Euro is not too bad. I might byu one anyway and replace my web server (currently a via EPIA system) with one of those ;-)

Anyone ever had one to play with ?

thanks for reminding me of the Adelaide, they even do a complete module with touch screen based in it... although it's only VGA. it seems in the embedded market there's very few products which have more than even 32MB of RAM let alone 128 or 256, and most displays under 6" are just VGA. I am wondering whether any of the better high-res picture frames could be dismantled and used for the PP (although the lack of touch screen might be a problem, a touch pad or tiny trackball or joystick would solve the problem for me).